Samira Wild Rift Build & Guide

Samira’s keystones and runes should contribute and focus on improving her damage as a carry and sustain her as she is a squishy champion that dives into opponents. Here are the list of runes to complement our Wild Rift Samira build that you may equip to fully maximize her potential.

Conqueror: Stringing different attacks and abilities is Samira’s bread and butter, making Conqueror as the best keystone for Samira. As she work her way towards stacking up her style to S, she is simultaneously gaining stacks of Conqueror. At maximum stacks, it gives bonus physical/magic vamp against other champions.

Fleet Footwork: Fleet Footworks presents itself as a good alternative in bad matchups mainly for sustain. Similarly, it heals and boosts her movement speed at max stacks.

Triumph: Aside from Wild Rush cooldown reset, Samira can restore her health with Triumph after champion takedown which somehow ensures her survivability in a teamfight. Furthermore, it also allows you to deal more damage to greatly severed enemies.

Nullifying orb: Samira has no other utility or self-peeling ability that can protect her aside from Blade Whirl. Unfortunately, it has a long cooldown. Luckily, Samira can equip Nullifying Orb to obtain a shield after receiving damage while she’s low on health.

Genius: For every unique champion takedown, Samira receives 3 ability haste that can reach up to 15. Ability haste directly affects cooldown reduction, and allows Samira to cast her abilities more frequently.

These are the best spells that must be equipped for Samira in Wild Rift.

Samira may have a dash that she can utilize towards her enemies and allies, but Wild Rush alone does not guarantee her safety. After all, Samira is squishy and would still need the help of Flash to escape risky situations. Moreover, Flash is an essential tool to catch enemies who are trying to get away from your grasp, or to close the gap allowing you to switch from ranged to melee.

Exhaust slows down opponents by a percentage, decreasing their movement speed to lower the chance for them to be able to retreat. Simultaneously, it also reduces the damage dealt of the target enemy. This effect contributes to the 1v5 potential of Samira. Other alternative options include Barrier and Heal as both of these provide extra protection to Samira by shielding and restoring her health.

For our Wild Rift Samira Guide, we recommend to upgrade Inferno Trigger as soon as possible, and when it’s available for better damage output. For her other abilities, it is best to maximize 1st ability, Flair first as it will be her greatest source of damage aside from her ultimate. This will increase its damage and further decrease its cooldown, allowing Samira to cast it more often. Next to Flair, 3rd ability, Wild Rush should be the priority to lower the cooldown of her dash giving her the opportunity to surprise enemies with a blink and switch to melee range at will. 2nd ability, Blade Whirl can be a good option next to Flair only if there are multiple source of crowd control abilities that pose threats to your safety as upgrading it solves the problem with its long cooldown.

Win high-stake competitive games as Wild Rift Samira by starting off in an aggressive manner. It is imperative and preferable to pick a tank support alongside Samira to match her playstyle. Despite having a relatively shorter range, Samira shines best in the early game as she can freely dash into opponents and deliver damages from her combos, which can be made possible with a support that can hard engage and dive into skirmishes. With these, Samira and her support can establish dominance and kill pressure, allowing both of you to take control of the lane. During the laning phase, she can utilize the range of her Flair, both the range and melee to poke out enemies and make sure to get away it with her Blade Whirl. When using Flair, do auto > q > auto to maximize its damage. Although Samira may be strong in the early game with an aggressive playstyle, think twice and know your limitations before going for risky situations that may lead you to your death. Getting stomped in the early game does not produce better results as it will be harder to scale into the late game.

Also, do not forget to place wards in the river to avoid getting ganked.

When fighting against champions that may be a lot stronger than you in the early game, it may be best to play passively, farm with Flair and autos, and wait for the right moment to engage. If not, take advantage of the level 2 power spike with your support and attempt for an early kill, only if it is safe to do so.

It is also important to take note of your opponents’ abilities and spells. Bait or wait for their crowd control abilities to go on cooldown first before engaging. This is essential in spite of having Blade Whirl that can nullify abilities, as you can instead use it to increase your damage output.

Before the late game, farm resources that you can take and play around objectives. For teamfights, never engage into skirmishes first especially since you are an important target. Instead, let your support, tank or bruiser dive into them first before joining in the combat. But outside of skirmishes, continue farming until you get your items and become fed enough for the enemies to lose their capability to stop you.

At this point, most of the champions have managed to scale already. Opponents may already have their core items equipped. Consequently, a small mistake made by Samira can cost her her own life, by dashing into five enemies alone for an instance. This will be an instant throw and it will be unfavorable for your team to win teamfights without their carry. Instead, make the most out of your mobility by proper positioning. Positioning as Wild Rift Samira may be different from the rest of the traditional marksmen like Caitlyn and Ashe as she wields two weapon and can pivot with her ranged and melee abilities. Samira will have to dive into enemies especially when they are clumped together to maximize Inferno Trigger, provided that the area is free of crowd controls. Wild Rift Samira remains to be a team-reliant champion, so it’s better to play with your team.

Wild Rift Samira can snowball her way to winning the laneby pairing her with supports with knock-up abilities that complements with her passive. The aim is to form an effective synergy with her support by executing hard engages and all-ins, and put pressure on her opponents. These things can be possible with a tank support on her side.

Nautilus is a walking source of crowd control. He can root enemies to the ground with his passive, pull enemies towards him knocking them up and stunning them, decaying slow and another knock-up. The Titan of the Depths locks down foes for a living and this earns him a spot on the best supports for Samira. Upon getting immobilized by Nautilus’ abilities, Samira can eventually follow up with her passive or Wild Rush, or knock enemies up for a longer time, again with her passive. Nautilus’ kit supplements Samira’s aggressive playstyle allowing her to further increase her early game strength.

Alistar is a tank support overloaded with crowd controls similar to Nautilus. Samira would not have to worry about getting aggressive as Alistar himself is made for champions like her. He can close the large gap between him and the target enemy in the blink of an eye with Headbutt and knock them up with Pulverize. To further prolong their suffering, Alistar can restrain their movement with a root from Trample. With these, Samira can quickly knock them up again and punish them for it. Laning phase would become bearable as well with Alistar as his passive allows him and his nearest ally to restore a bit of their health.